Have you looked at the international rankings of the world's happiest countries lately? Measuring a country's subjective levels of happiness has become something of an international sport.

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A ketamine-based nasal spray is officially the first and only standalone therapy available for treatment-resistant depression in the US.

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The number of people being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ...

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When you imagine a coral, it's probably not walking around. In fact, by most accounts, corals are sessile, meaning they are fixed to the surface of their habitat, often the reef built from the bones ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that ...

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, as the position of the magnetic North Pole is officially ...